Timothy Snyder -- How The Crisis in This Country is In the Oval Office: The Show of Strength is Not Power

[ancianita]

5. I hear you. But it's not about Trump. It's about the mentality he projects from oligarchs to bring down

the power of the United States to a manageable status for them.

Sure, everything you say about the felon's motivations is also behind this. So yeah, they could be that personal and desperate.

Consider this:
All these analyses can be true at once. Because right as you are in what you say, it can still stand
alongside any other analysis and none of them put together can change the overall goal of the oligarchs that surround him and that he capitulates to. Sure, it's true that what the felon is willing to do for Putin with Ukraine is also what the felon is willing to do for Putin/Jin Ping/Musk with the United States.

And the purpose of this OP analysis and yours is to get us closer to doing something about it.

My point: Just because we and Snyder know these things doesn't mean we Americans can stop it.

We The People have to get Western heads and institutional forces together to do something about it.